What do i need ot make my shard public

[jklamm1980]

What do i need to have in order to make my shard where everyone can access it i dont run through a router. everyone ive talked to or read a thread from says that you can use no-ip.com to get a dynamic dns that you can use so that your ip doesnt change but does anyone know of one that doesnt cost any money? Any help would be nice thank you very much jasonk

[Alari]

If you're connecting directly to a cable modem or something the connection won't have a firewall unless the cable modem does.. It's hard to say exactly without knowing more about how you connect but if you don't have a router or firewall, then all the ports are available to the entire internet automatically. If you're connecting via another computer or system, then that computer may be acting as a router and/or firewall in which case you have to open port 2593.

No IP has a free service as well as a paid service. I've been using the free one for a while, the only real issue I have with it is that it doesn't detect that I'm running the client with regards to the 'unused' expiration.. That is to say I get an email every 90 days or so with a link I have to click to verify I'm still using the service. Everything else works fine, IP changes are detected and I can point a subdomain of my main site to the no-ip address.

DynDNS is another free dynamic DNS service, their page says they're free anyway, I haven't tried them myself. (I may just do so, it never hurts to have a backup...)

There are other free dynamic DNS services available, search Google for "free dynamic dns" and you'll get a huge list.

That just makes your server easier to connect to, people can always connect via IP, at least until it changes. =)

(Dynamic DNS basically points a subdomain name towards your current IP, you run a client on the server computer which detects IP changes and lets the dynamic DNS service know to point to a new IP address. If you have static IPs, your IP address will not change (...much, it still can change if your ISP allocates you a new IP. So a dynamic DNS service is still useful)

Once it's public you can advertise on ConnectUO (there's a specific shard advertisement forum for now, until ConnectUO is working again) plus plenty of "top ### UO server" sites you can list your shard on.